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No. of Recommendations: 6
By Matra Ressa the CEO of Rappler ( A Philippine Online Newspaper)
Short: 8 minuutes 39 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSTBoPloqISome of the points are for journos
From a comment:
Maria Ressa’s points:
1. Autocracy is about power and money, not about ideology
2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agencies
4. Do not normalize autocratic behavior
5. Hold on to democratic values
6. Be transparent
7. Stay committed
8. Not about taking sides, but on the side of facts
9. Hold the line: defend the Constitution
10. In some ways a corrupt government is easier to deal with, as everything is transactional
11. Build community, engage with the real world
12. Crowd funding to address challenges
13. We are factionalized through social media (it connects as well as corrupts us and separates us), has led to people electing illiberal leaders democratically
14. Collaborate
15. Reach across the ideological spectrum to like-minded people who also care about democratic values
16. Embrace your fears
17. Imagine worst case scenarios and workflow them (through drills)
My friend is reading this.
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If his troops come close to running over students with a tank, will your fellow Club 401K'ers lavish him with trade deals, World Trade Organization, Permanent Normalized Trade Relations? Because that's what you people did for China .
IF he puts Muslims into concentration camps, will you take his side on tariff disputes?
Because that's what Club 401K Liberals are doing for China --- at this moment.
Good job "standing up to the dictator"
Maybe next time, tweak the attitude, don't elect him twice, and maybe don't get what you deserve :)
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It is a very similar list to the 20 points in Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny. Which if you haven't read, is well with the under 2 hours it takes to read or listen to.
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Good job "standing up to the dictator"
Read it Jedi. Duterte was elected too. Get back to us on what similarities, etc., you see. It's a short < 9 minute video and I copied a point recap, but it seems you didn't read them. The book is considered an easy read.
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Wow, great list. Let's go through it!
1. Autocracy is about power and money, not about ideology
Indeed! As we're seeing, loads of folks were lined up to feed at the NGO and "Inflation reduction Act" trough. After all, Biden was "throwing gold bars off the Titanic", wasn't he?
2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)
We've never seen this before, right? After all, everyone treats Fox, Breitbart and other outfits respectfully, right?
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agencies
Lois Lerner waves "hello". So does Obama's OSHA, FBI, DOJ, CIA...
4. Do not normalize autocratic behavior
"I've got a pen and a phone, and if Congress won't act, I will"
5. Hold on to democratic values
6. Be transparent
From the bunch that was slow in FOIA requests, or conducted official business on closet servers?
7. Stay committed
8. Not about taking sides, but on the side of facts
Facts, amirite? Like Russian collusion?
9. Hold the line: defend the Constitution
Let's ask James Rosen and Carter Page how they feel about their 1st and other Amendment rights. Among others. How about Moms for Liberty?
10. In some ways a corrupt government is easier to deal with, as everything is transactional
11. Build community, engage with the real world
12. Crowd funding to address challenges
Indeed. ActBlue is a wonderful program for laundering money from point A to point B.
13. We are factionalized through social media (it connects as well as corrupts us and separates us), has led to people electing illiberal leaders democratically
Yeah, we've never seen online gangs of liberal 'bots try to swamp and silence people, have we?
14. Collaborate
15. Reach across the ideological spectrum to like-minded people who also care about democratic values
The democrats are doing a bang up job here, calling everyone who disagrees a Nazi or a terrorist.
16. Embrace your fears
17. Imagine worst case scenarios and workflow them (through drills)
OMG are you people doing this with the nonstop Hitler nonsense. Heckuva job.
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This thread is the Gift. That. Keeps. On. Giving.
15. Reach across the ideological spectrum to like-minded people who also care about democratic values
Hahahahahahahaha - let's look into this one and contrast it with this:
13. We are factionalized through social media (it connects as well as corrupts us and separates us), has led to people electing illiberal leaders democratically
Here's Larry David's op-ed in the NYT about Bill Maher meeting with Trump:
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. “He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.” But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Who knew that LD reads this board?
Anyway.
Scott Jennings nailed it: This Op-ed wasn't about Maher meeting with Trump, it was about intimidating the NEXT person who wants to reach across the aisle.
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Say, why would anyone want to "attack" a journalist? I mean, they're the paragons of truth in our society, amirite?
2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)Or maybe...they're a) not truthful and b) arrogant enough to think their small minds and voices matter more than anyone else's. Or c): both.
I pick c).
Lots of folks are noticing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=a9_ArQe2CV841pmg&...Actor Rainn Wilson. Hardly a conservative.
“This is where I would push back: When I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration," he countered.
"Where again, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about left-leaning news media organizations — were kind of like, ‘La la la la, everything’s fine. Look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration’s not that much of a problem,’" he said, fingers in his ears. "And really being Cleopatra, queen of denial."60 Minutes' long time fabricat-, I mean, "producer" just rage-quit:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/top-60-minutes-produ...Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.In other words: I can't craft the narrative to fit my political biases anymore because it's getting my parent company in legal trouble, so peace out, bitchez!
What a great thread this is!
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And yet more! Let's revisit this one:
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agenciesI mean, the dems never do this, right? They never sic regulatory agencies or the IRS on people who dare to say, oppose Obamacare? Or want to organize and complain about what's being taught in schools? They'd never brand those people domestic terrorists and turn the FBI loose on them, would they?
And they never, ever, hold grudges amirite?
https://mxmnews.com/article/2f1b696e-8d14-4284-81f...Raskin warns Bukele: “Trump Administration is not going to last forever”Threats are sooooo passé. What does he mean by that?
Raskin told MSNBC that Bukele and other global leaders are aligning with President Trump at their own peril.Peril, you say?
“The tyrants, dictators, autocrats of the world have to understand,” Raskin declared, “we will remember who stood up for democracy in America and who tried to drive us down towards dictatorship.”Sounds like somebody needs to look into a mirror.
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And again. What a marvelous thread to show that when liberals complain about something…they’re already doing it.
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agencies
4. Do not normalize autocratic behavior
5. Hold on to democratic values
6. Be transparent
This week’s installment the us to Germany, where the intelligence services are declaring the AfD party to be a bunch of extremists.
This enables the government to spy on them, place informants, probe their finances,
Name it.
Gotta love liberalism. It comes up with loads of slogans to describe what it’s all about.
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This week’s installment the us to Germany, where the intelligence services are declaring the AfD party to be a bunch of extremists.
This enables the government to spy on them, place informants, probe their finances,
Governments are under no obligation to shelter political parties bent on the destruction of the democratic underpinnings of the country.
Of course, this is the weakness of many democracies. In the name of “democracy” they often give legitimacy to authoritarian parties that will dismantle democracy if they are elected.
It happened in Putin’s Russia, in Orban’s Hungary, and following the same playbook, it is happening here in Trump’s America
Germany is protecting itself. Good for Germany.
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I love it. In progressive “democracy” the word “democracy” means what they say it means and voters are only allowed choices the progs allow.
Everybody else? Screw you, extremist.
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I love it. In progressive “democracy” the word “democracy” means what they say it means and voters are only allowed choices the progs allow.
Everybody else? Screw you, extremist.
You’ve engaged in several fact free rants over the past few days.
For one, I’m not a progressive.
Second, my definition of “democracy” is fashioned by the democratic republic defined by the United States Constitution.
But…. I imagine your outrage at Germany investigating the finances of the AfD is only surpassed by the glee you have voiced at the evidence free attacks launched by Trump against ActBlue.
And you probably don’t even recognize the hypocrisy.
Pity.
If you did, there’d be hope for you.
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Governments are under no obligation to shelter political parties bent on the destruction of the democratic underpinnings of the country.
Of course, this is the weakness of many democracies. In the name of “democracy” they often give legitimacy to authoritarian parties that will dismantle democracy if they are elected.
Yes, Karl Popper call this the Tolerance Paradox.
"The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance."
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Yes, Karl Popper call this the Tolerance Paradox.
Exactly.
Healthy societies recognize and eliminate pathogenic ideologies by not voting them into power.
We are not a healthy society.
We’ve already voted them into power.
Perhaps we can vote ourselves out of this mess. Or perhaps not.
Perhaps recent rulings by courts will stick. Or perhaps not.
Perhaps the American experiment is over.
Perhaps……
Or perhaps not.
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You’ve corrected several of your posts lately. Yes I have, you’re welcome.
For one, I’m not a progressive.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, you are.
As far as Act Blue goes, nice try. I told you back on The Fool what a massive money laundering pit they are. But thanks for tying them to the democrat oarry; they’re supposed to be a private outfit.
